* 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

Leonardo da Vinci was the archetypal Renaissance man representing the humanistic values of the period in his art, science and writing.

Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Donatello, Master splinter and Shredder

* Genius: Leonardo da Vinci

Anagrams are also often used in fiction for character aliases, such as Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort, Leonardo da vinci = O Draconian Devil, The Mona Lisa

In some ways, Allori is the last of the line of prominent Florentine painters, of generally undiluted Tuscan artistic heritage: Andrea del Sarto worked with Fra Bartolomeo ( as well as Leonardo da Vinci ), Pontormo briefly worked under Andrea, and trained Bronzino, who trained Allori.

Roger Bacon and Leonardo da Vinci were some of the first modern Europeans to study aeronautics.

Another very concrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing human face whose proportions can be described by very few bits of information, drawing inspiration from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer.

His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

He was also familiar with the ' abbreviated construction ' as described by Alberti and the geometrical construction of shadows, a technique of Leonardo da Vinci.

A drawing of a design for a flying machine by Leonardo da Vinci ( c. 1488 ).

Although observations of some aerodynamic effects such as wind resistance ( e. g. drag ) were recorded by Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei, very little effort was made to develop a rigorous quantitative theory of air flow prior to the 17th century.

In 1505, Leonardo da Vinci wrote the Codex on the Flight of Birds, one of the earliest treatises on aerodynamics.

There are groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, ( including his only surviving full-scale cartoon ), Dürer ( a collection of 138 drawings is one of the finest in existence ), Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Claude and Watteau, and largely complete collections of the works of all the great printmakers including Dürer ( 99 engravings, 6 etchings and most of his 346 woodcuts ), Rembrandt and Goya.

File: Il Condottiere. jpg | Leonardo da Vinci-Profile of a warrior in helmet ( c. 1472 )

File: Leonardo da vinci, Study for the Burlington House Cartoon. jpg | Leonardo da Vinci-The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist (' The Burlington House Cartoon ') ( c. 1499 – 1500 )

The Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci also made his own bestiary.

Sketch by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

; Leonardo da Vinci's catapult: Leonardo da Vinci sought to improve the efficiency and range of earlier designs.

Image: The Annunciation. jpg | Annunciation by Leonardo Da Vinci

Cartoons by painters, such as the Raphael Cartoons in London and examples by Leonardo da Vinci, are highly prized in their own right.

Crankshafts were also described by Konrad Kyeser ( d. 1405 ), Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) and a Dutch " farmer " by the name Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest in 1592.

Cesare Borgia briefly employed Leonardo da Vinci as military architect and engineer between 1502 and 1503.

" Views of a Fetus in the Womb ", Leonardo da Vinci, ca.

* Notable draftsmen of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries include Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello.

Line drawing in sanguine by Leonardo da Vinci

Their contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) said,

Leonardo drew many studies of the human skeleton and its parts, as well as muscles and sinews.

Leonardo also studied and drew the anatomy of many animals, dissecting cows, birds, monkeys, bears, and frogs, and comparing in his drawings their anatomical structure with that of humans.

Leonardo da Vinci drew the Vitruvian Man within a square of side 1. 83 metres and a circle about 1. 2 metres in radius

Leonardo da Vinci drew a picture of the flyer, which twists the yarn before winding it onto the spindle.

It drew a rebuttal from the president of the SDMI, Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione.

Escher drew the octahedral compound of Stars in a beveled wire-frame style that was previously used by Leonardo da Vinci in his illustrations for Luca Pacioli's book, De divina proportione.

One can only imagine how, over a few years, both Leonardo and Bramante – foreigners and equally attracted by the theme of the centralized church – had much to question and discuss .” ( Rowe & Satkowski p14 ) Although Leonardo was never to design or construct a single building he drew numerous sketches in which the concept was explored ( fig ).

Leonardo was not a prolific painter, but he was a most prolific draftsman, keeping journals full of small sketches and detailed drawings recording all manner of things that took his attention.

Leonardo da Vinci adopted the principle to drive his theoretical helicopter, sketches of which involved a large canvas screw overhead.

Although never successful in creating a " flying machine ", Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) was a keen observer of the anatomy and flight of birds, and made numerous notes and sketches on his observations as well as sketches of various " flying machines ".

In 1728, she rediscovered sets of sketches by Leonardo da Vinci and Hans Holbein that had been hidden in a drawer since the reign of William III.

Other Russian researchers noted a resemblance to sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, although he could not have been known in Ivan's Moscow.

Fascinated by Filippo's machines, which Verrocchio used to hoist the ball, Leonardo made a series of sketches of them and, as a result, is often given credit for their invention.

Having examined Leonardo da Vinci's rough sketches of a parachute, Veranzio designed a parachute of his own.

In 2008, a curator at the Louvre discovered several faint sketches believed to have been made by Leonardo on the back of the painting.

The Louvre spokesperson said that the sketches were " very probably " made by Leonardo and that it was the first time that any drawing had been found on the " flip side of one of his works ".

The sketchbooks of some individual artists have become very well known, including those of Leonardo da Vinci and Edgar Degas which have become art objects in their own right, with many pages showing finished studies as well as sketches.

“ By 1490, structures not unlike those of Bramante ’ s St. Peter ’ s or Santa Maria della Consolazione at Todi had appeared amongst Leonardo ’ s sketches .” ( Bruschi p44 )

Above all, the Consolazione ’ s pristine combination of cube, drum, dome and apses shows its origins in the sketches by Leonardo that were central to his development as an artist ( fig )… Though in most respects the ideas of Bramante are undeniably present, the flaccid orders on the exterior of this otherwise impressive church suggests that he may not have participated directly in its execution ” ( Ibid p44-45 )